And the reason is... because the stuff used to be BUILT by people. If a guy on the assembly line had to be able to get his hands onto a bolt to install it then someone replacing it would also be able to reach it.
Once we switched to robots for manufacturing it became a lot more difficult. A robot can reach where a person cannot.
Yes, An old British Leyland Rover used to be built by hand and when you lost a bit on the motorway it was OK, because someone else will have lost a similar bit up the road and you could just pick that up instead. A Honda was built by robots and lasts 20+ years on most of it's original components.
The problem isn't construction techniques, they've been a huge boon in terms of reliability, consistency and build quality. The problem is planned obsolescence. The problem is many manufacturers are deliberately designing cars not to be easily repairable so you'll buy a new one rather than fixing issues on the old one. Things like light fittings, sound deadening and other things that will annoy you are designed to fail shortly after the warranty.
You can still get cars that are relatively easy to work on, but these tend to be the same cars that dont break down often.
What you mean to say is, Apple buys great hardware.
Screens are made by LG, processors by TSMC, RAM by Hynix, flash memory by Samsung.
A lot of other manufacturers do the same thing. Actually unlike a lot of other manufacturers Apple tends to get things wrong when they design something themselves (see: antennagate), then again they're in good company with HP in this regard.
Also, hardware isn't usually enough to keep most companies afloat. A lot of the old big iron companies are spinning off their hardware divisions because they aren't making money. Unfortunately Apple has most of its users by the short and curlies, so getting more money out of them isn't an issue.
It would if it was hosted on a Mac OS X server somewhere...
A what?
Its an ancient and archaic device sysadmins have to hard reboot weekly until hardware failure finally forces the application to be moved onto an OS that works and can be virtualised.
The creator of a device that breaks the law because the creator either negligently or intentionally set up the device to break the law is responsible, as that creator set the conditions for the operation of the device.
It's not necessarily the creator, rather the operator who uses it for illegal purposes. A general purpose script or bot that is re-purposed for illegal means does not make the creator liable.
It's like suing Toyota because someone used a Hilux in a ram raid.
India comes up again for another reason, which is the British Commonwealth. English is widely spoken in these member countries, which comprises a good chunk of the population in Africa and Asia.
There's a reason American English is more widely spoke in Vietnam and the Philippines whilst British English is more widely spoken in Malaysia and Singapore. Its because these nations had significant influences in developing English schools in these countries.
It also helps that India and Malaysia were actually British colonies (same with India). In large swaths of Africa, German or French is the dominant non-local language because they were colonies of these powers. Also South America, English is somewhat rare there because they have never really been colonised by an English speaking power after kicking out the Spanish.
Go to the hippest clubs or most-expensive shopping malls in Shanghai or Hong Kong. You'll see elite Chinese and HK kids speaking English, not Chinese. More often than not, they're speaking English with an English accent too.
That is because the best schools in the world are in English speaking countries. Being sent overseas for education is a sign of wealth.
Back a few hundred years, French was the dominant language for the same reason.
If a language grows to be dominate most likely it won't be one we currently have, more likely it will be a mish mash of existing languages, similar to what English has become.
"English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”
This,
English will remain the dominant language because it is so versatile and malleable. You can mess up the sentence structure to hell and back and you can still understand it (I.E Chinglish, Indian English and so forth... Thanking you very much sir for the reading of my post), you can use the wrong word entirely and still make sense. We can borrow the mannerisms and even structure of other languages and still be understandable. Also unlike other languages, in particular Asian languages English is very imprecise, meaning it can handle being spoken incorrectly, if you look at Thai for example, the word "mai" has five meanings depending on which tone it's spoken in (high, mid, low, rising and falling), Strict language requirements tend to limit its spread. China has been a dominant force in Asia for some time yet Chinese isn't a dominant language because English is much easier to learn and communicate with.
That being said, it wont be the same English we speak today because English is a living language and will change with time. Think about how different the language was back in the 80's if you're old enough, pretty rad huh.
Actually, it's an acronym for NAtionale soZIalist, the political party.
Wrong again. it's a contraction of a single German word (because compound words are common in Germanic languages), Nazi is the short form of Nationalsozialismus. Ergo it is a contraction and should be capitalised as a proper noun because it's full version is a proper noun.
What, you didn't know the NAZIs were socialists?
Thats because they aren't. The key part of " Nationalsozialismus" is nationalism, not socialism. Nazism is an extreme right wing form of government committed to a single party state and diametrically opposed to communism and Marxism.
One of the first jobs of the Sturmabteilung or SA was to beat up Bolshevik supporters around Munich in the 1920s. By the 1930's when the SA were disbanded and merged into the SS (after the night of the long kinves) there were no Bolseviks left in Germany due to the SA's actions.
You need to learn about the Nazis before commenting about the Nazis.
So, since tablets have not, and probably won't eliminate laptops, desktops, and phones, the market is in collapse? Meh!
Yep, I could do nothing but roll my eyes at all the "post-PC" nonsense of the last few years. Market saturation has been reached and tablet sales have bottomed out, everyone who wants one has one, even the laggards.
Now tablet sales are in the same category as PC sales. People will keep them for 3-5 years then replace them when they start to break... Hello planned obsolescence. Unlike phones which telcos push onto people every 12-18 months to keep them locked into overpriced plans tablets are not tied to telcos. Seeing as tablets have been completely unable to displace computers at all in the corporate world, the replace rate is going to be slower than PC's.
As many others have said, tablets are basically display devices. We use them for video and web usage... If I need to do some work, type out a long email or want to play some games I'm still going to use a PC and the majority of people would agree. People are thinking of tablets in the same way they think of their TV and replacement rates will be the same.
Dare I say it, we're now in the post-tablet world.
Hopefully the A350 can make up for the anemic A380 sales
The A380 is really huge. A lot of the long-haul flights that I've been on in the last couple of years haven't been full, even when they're the one flight of the day between two points and are on a plane with half of the capacity of the A380. It's a very economical plane to fly if you can fill it up, but if it's likely to be under half full then it's very expensive.
This has more to do with the way the US hub and spoke model is designed. If you travel between Europe and Asia or Asia and America the A380 is quite popular. Its taking over a lot of the routes that 747's were used for. QANTAS is replacing it's custom 747-ER aircraft with stock A380's for it's pacific routes.
The A380 has a bigger issue that gates at older airports need to be upgraded to accommodate the A380. Despite this, Airbus have delivered 147 airframes since release. Its really the 747-8 that is floundering.
So what you're suggesting is get a DUI, and we'll ruin your life. I mean, I hate people drink driving, but ruining their life is not a good way of turning them into a functioning member of society, it's a good way of turning them into an alcoholic criminal.
The thought is that if they knew getting caught would ruin their lives, they might stop. Today, there's no reason to not drive drunk. The expected cost of driving drunk is less than the cost of a cab. So it's rational to drive drunk. So long as the cheapest/easiest option is driving drunk, people will still do it.
And what some people are going to hate is, this approach works in the UK and Australia.
DUI in Australia carries a mandatory license suspension in most cases. The only way you get away with just a fine is if you're just over the limit and it's your first drink driving infraction in 3 years...
The UK is nowhere near as lenient, so much as 0.00001 over and you're off the road for a month or more.
Drink driving incidents have decreased significantly.
We also use Alcohol Interlock Devices here in Oz, but this is only for people who have recorded multiple DUI convictions.
I didn't complain but I found some of the pictures it unearthed to be painful reminders,
Facebook decided my best "year in review" photo was one of my car accident. Sure I took a screenshot and used it as a joke but I can imagine how people being show pictures of their dead child would upset them. Facebook at least acknowledged that have removed it for now, as of a few hours ago Facebook is no longer showing me the mangled back end of a DC5S.
Also, I'm pretty sure more than one person complained. Its only one getting media attention.
Point of information - this wasn't Malaysia Airlines, it was AirAsia.
More precisely it was Indonesian AirAsia, which is a separate company to AirAsia BHD as Indonesia prohibits majority foreign ownership on airlines. Indonesian AirAsia has its own staff, management and maintenance.
It should also be noted that AirAsia BHD practically owns Indonesia AirAsia as they completely funded the holding company that owns the other 51% of the stock.
No. Presumption of guilt would be to lock you up, then later determine if you actually were drunk or not.
Presumption of guilt would be 'you have been accused of drunk driving, unless you can prove otherwise you are hereby convicted'.
In Australia, if you get charged with DUI, the police have to have evidence. This can be in the form of a breathalyser reading or blood test but not in the form of "I smelled beer on his breath".
Once you're charged you have two options, the first is to contest it and take it to court. The second is to pay the fine which is considered an admission of guilt. Because the requirement for evidence for Australian Police is high, most opt not to go to court. High range DUI (over 0.08 BAC) has an automatic court appearance, most just plead guilty.
Even though we have random breath tests, you still go through the same legal system with the same chances to demonstrate your innocence. Convictions are not automatic.
The police can set up a road-block and demand that drivers provide a breath test and proof of their license at any time
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Abuse this privilege and it will be taken away from you.
If you dont like RBT's you have the choice not to drive. A lot of Australians like RBT's because it cuts down on drunk drivers. Whilst we're on that subject, you have no right to drink and drive.
The taxman can deliver an assessment that says you owe $xxxxx in taxes and you are presumed to be guilty unless you can prove you don't owe that much in tax.
That assessment is court admissible evidence that you do owe $xxxx in taxes. You have been demonstrated to be in arrears. The tax tables are published before the FY starts and the government it not permitted to change the tax tables once the FY begins. So you have no excuse for not knowing how much you owe.
Of course as part of our legal system you get the opportunity to demonstrate those figures are wrong. This means you get the presumption of innocence as you get to challenge the assessment. The fact is most people choose not to because the assessment is accurate.
You have no idea what presumption of innocence means.
As Midnight Oil so wisely said
What does Peter Garrett do?
You strike me as one of those Freemen On The Land nutters. For the Americans playing along at home FOTL's are the equivalent of Tea Partiers, Libertarians and Rednecks all rolled into one completely retarded package.
Hate to break it to you, but the US is way ahead of Australia in that regard.
If you ever get pulled over by a cop while carrying a large amount of cash on you, you'll find out the hard way.
Also we can record our cops.
For every traffic stop, my dash cam records audio. Plus because they use things like breathalisers, I cant be pulled out of my car because the officer "smelled beer on my breath", there is a standard of evidence to be upheld.
Not that I've ever had trouble with the cops. I get pulled over into an RBT (Random Breath Test) site about once a year and pull out a minute or two later with a "thanks for your co-operation sir". This is in my boy-racer Nissan Silvia S15 with fart canon exhaust, it really pays not to be a self-important wanker when dealing with cops.
We install Sandboxie on all computers that are in for service. The benefits of using it are explained to the customer. A rogue website only takes over the sandboxed session. If infected, close the box, delete the contents and you're up and running again.
That's completely useless in this case as the malware fools the user into installing it. The user downloads a zip file containing an executable, so its well outside the sandbox by that point.
Chinese doesn't even have a word for "no", to give you an idea of how fundamentally different it is.
This is common amongst Asian languages or at least Asian cultures.
When communicating with contractors and businesses in many Asian nations it's often an exercise to figure out if "yes" means "yes we can" or "yes we cant"
It seems reasonable to always be 1 week behind in patching your systems - let someone else be the lightning rod for goofs and mistakes. I know some sysadmins patch "test" systems and try things out to see if the patches break their currently-running code. They don't seem to mind a certain time lag in patching.
I as well as millions of other sysadmins would very much like this feature in Windows.
That way we can immediately patch some machines and test for problems and then have the others patch 1-2 weeks later. 99% of the time it will be fine, but that 1% will save a weeks worth of downtime.
WSUS doesn't really cut it in this regard and requires too much manual work for a sysadmin that already doesn't have enough time.
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However, in another case I watched two people try to get a PT Cruiser running on my street..
You managed to look at a PT Cruiser for more than 2 minutes without being sick?
And the reason is ... because the stuff used to be BUILT by people. If a guy on the assembly line had to be able to get his hands onto a bolt to install it then someone replacing it would also be able to reach it.
Once we switched to robots for manufacturing it became a lot more difficult. A robot can reach where a person cannot.
Yes, An old British Leyland Rover used to be built by hand and when you lost a bit on the motorway it was OK, because someone else will have lost a similar bit up the road and you could just pick that up instead. A Honda was built by robots and lasts 20+ years on most of it's original components.
The problem isn't construction techniques, they've been a huge boon in terms of reliability, consistency and build quality. The problem is planned obsolescence. The problem is many manufacturers are deliberately designing cars not to be easily repairable so you'll buy a new one rather than fixing issues on the old one. Things like light fittings, sound deadening and other things that will annoy you are designed to fail shortly after the warranty.
You can still get cars that are relatively easy to work on, but these tend to be the same cars that dont break down often.
What you mean to say is, Apple buys great hardware.
Screens are made by LG, processors by TSMC, RAM by Hynix, flash memory by Samsung.
A lot of other manufacturers do the same thing. Actually unlike a lot of other manufacturers Apple tends to get things wrong when they design something themselves (see: antennagate), then again they're in good company with HP in this regard.
Also, hardware isn't usually enough to keep most companies afloat. A lot of the old big iron companies are spinning off their hardware divisions because they aren't making money. Unfortunately Apple has most of its users by the short and curlies, so getting more money out of them isn't an issue.
It would if it was hosted on a Mac OS X server somewhere...
A what?
Its an ancient and archaic device sysadmins have to hard reboot weekly until hardware failure finally forces the application to be moved onto an OS that works and can be virtualised.
This bot, it paid for blackjack and hookers?
I dont recall seeing Bender actually pay for Blackjack or Hookers, he just used them a lot.
The creator of a device that breaks the law because the creator either negligently or intentionally set up the device to break the law is responsible, as that creator set the conditions for the operation of the device.
It's not necessarily the creator, rather the operator who uses it for illegal purposes. A general purpose script or bot that is re-purposed for illegal means does not make the creator liable.
It's like suing Toyota because someone used a Hilux in a ram raid.
India comes up again for another reason, which is the British Commonwealth. English is widely spoken in these member countries, which comprises a good chunk of the population in Africa and Asia.
There's a reason American English is more widely spoke in Vietnam and the Philippines whilst British English is more widely spoken in Malaysia and Singapore. Its because these nations had significant influences in developing English schools in these countries.
It also helps that India and Malaysia were actually British colonies (same with India). In large swaths of Africa, German or French is the dominant non-local language because they were colonies of these powers. Also South America, English is somewhat rare there because they have never really been colonised by an English speaking power after kicking out the Spanish.
That is because the best schools in the world are in English speaking countries. Being sent overseas for education is a sign of wealth.
Back a few hundred years, French was the dominant language for the same reason.
If a language grows to be dominate most likely it won't be one we currently have, more likely it will be a mish mash of existing languages, similar to what English has become.
"English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”
This,
English will remain the dominant language because it is so versatile and malleable. You can mess up the sentence structure to hell and back and you can still understand it (I.E Chinglish, Indian English and so forth... Thanking you very much sir for the reading of my post), you can use the wrong word entirely and still make sense. We can borrow the mannerisms and even structure of other languages and still be understandable. Also unlike other languages, in particular Asian languages English is very imprecise, meaning it can handle being spoken incorrectly, if you look at Thai for example, the word "mai" has five meanings depending on which tone it's spoken in (high, mid, low, rising and falling), Strict language requirements tend to limit its spread. China has been a dominant force in Asia for some time yet Chinese isn't a dominant language because English is much easier to learn and communicate with.
That being said, it wont be the same English we speak today because English is a living language and will change with time. Think about how different the language was back in the 80's if you're old enough, pretty rad huh.
Actually, it's an acronym for NAtionale soZIalist, the political party.
Wrong again. it's a contraction of a single German word (because compound words are common in Germanic languages), Nazi is the short form of Nationalsozialismus. Ergo it is a contraction and should be capitalised as a proper noun because it's full version is a proper noun.
What, you didn't know the NAZIs were socialists?
Thats because they aren't. The key part of " Nationalsozialismus" is nationalism, not socialism. Nazism is an extreme right wing form of government committed to a single party state and diametrically opposed to communism and Marxism.
One of the first jobs of the Sturmabteilung or SA was to beat up Bolshevik supporters around Munich in the 1920s. By the 1930's when the SA were disbanded and merged into the SS (after the night of the long kinves) there were no Bolseviks left in Germany due to the SA's actions.
You need to learn about the Nazis before commenting about the Nazis.
So, since tablets have not, and probably won't eliminate laptops, desktops, and phones, the market is in collapse? Meh!
Yep, I could do nothing but roll my eyes at all the "post-PC" nonsense of the last few years. Market saturation has been reached and tablet sales have bottomed out, everyone who wants one has one, even the laggards.
Now tablet sales are in the same category as PC sales. People will keep them for 3-5 years then replace them when they start to break... Hello planned obsolescence. Unlike phones which telcos push onto people every 12-18 months to keep them locked into overpriced plans tablets are not tied to telcos. Seeing as tablets have been completely unable to displace computers at all in the corporate world, the replace rate is going to be slower than PC's.
As many others have said, tablets are basically display devices. We use them for video and web usage... If I need to do some work, type out a long email or want to play some games I'm still going to use a PC and the majority of people would agree. People are thinking of tablets in the same way they think of their TV and replacement rates will be the same.
Dare I say it, we're now in the post-tablet world.
Hopefully the A350 can make up for the anemic A380 sales
The A380 is really huge. A lot of the long-haul flights that I've been on in the last couple of years haven't been full, even when they're the one flight of the day between two points and are on a plane with half of the capacity of the A380. It's a very economical plane to fly if you can fill it up, but if it's likely to be under half full then it's very expensive.
This has more to do with the way the US hub and spoke model is designed. If you travel between Europe and Asia or Asia and America the A380 is quite popular. Its taking over a lot of the routes that 747's were used for. QANTAS is replacing it's custom 747-ER aircraft with stock A380's for it's pacific routes.
The A380 has a bigger issue that gates at older airports need to be upgraded to accommodate the A380. Despite this, Airbus have delivered 147 airframes since release. Its really the 747-8 that is floundering.
So what you're suggesting is get a DUI, and we'll ruin your life. I mean, I hate people drink driving, but ruining their life is not a good way of turning them into a functioning member of society, it's a good way of turning them into an alcoholic criminal.
The thought is that if they knew getting caught would ruin their lives, they might stop. Today, there's no reason to not drive drunk. The expected cost of driving drunk is less than the cost of a cab. So it's rational to drive drunk. So long as the cheapest/easiest option is driving drunk, people will still do it.
And what some people are going to hate is, this approach works in the UK and Australia.
DUI in Australia carries a mandatory license suspension in most cases. The only way you get away with just a fine is if you're just over the limit and it's your first drink driving infraction in 3 years...
The UK is nowhere near as lenient, so much as 0.00001 over and you're off the road for a month or more.
Drink driving incidents have decreased significantly.
We also use Alcohol Interlock Devices here in Oz, but this is only for people who have recorded multiple DUI convictions.
can someone explain to me why it's so important to have a Facebook account?
Parsing through translation computer...
I've got an axe to grind against Facebook for whatever reason, can someone validate my beliefs... Pleeeeeease validate what I believe.
But to answer your question, a lot of people use it to share thoughts, experiences, photographs and information with friends and family.
Its convenient and most people also don't give a shit about metadata mining.
I didn't complain but I found some of the pictures it unearthed to be painful reminders,
Facebook decided my best "year in review" photo was one of my car accident. Sure I took a screenshot and used it as a joke but I can imagine how people being show pictures of their dead child would upset them. Facebook at least acknowledged that have removed it for now, as of a few hours ago Facebook is no longer showing me the mangled back end of a DC5S.
Also, I'm pretty sure more than one person complained. Its only one getting media attention.
Point of information - this wasn't Malaysia Airlines, it was AirAsia.
More precisely it was Indonesian AirAsia, which is a separate company to AirAsia BHD as Indonesia prohibits majority foreign ownership on airlines. Indonesian AirAsia has its own staff, management and maintenance.
It should also be noted that AirAsia BHD practically owns Indonesia AirAsia as they completely funded the holding company that owns the other 51% of the stock.
Su aerodeslizador es completo de anguilas.
No. Presumption of guilt would be to lock you up, then later determine if you actually were drunk or not.
Presumption of guilt would be 'you have been accused of drunk driving, unless you can prove otherwise you are hereby convicted'.
In Australia, if you get charged with DUI, the police have to have evidence. This can be in the form of a breathalyser reading or blood test but not in the form of "I smelled beer on his breath".
Once you're charged you have two options, the first is to contest it and take it to court. The second is to pay the fine which is considered an admission of guilt. Because the requirement for evidence for Australian Police is high, most opt not to go to court. High range DUI (over 0.08 BAC) has an automatic court appearance, most just plead guilty.
Even though we have random breath tests, you still go through the same legal system with the same chances to demonstrate your innocence. Convictions are not automatic.
The police can set up a road-block and demand that drivers provide a breath test and proof of their license at any time
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Abuse this privilege and it will be taken away from you.
If you dont like RBT's you have the choice not to drive. A lot of Australians like RBT's because it cuts down on drunk drivers. Whilst we're on that subject, you have no right to drink and drive.
That assessment is court admissible evidence that you do owe $xxxx in taxes. You have been demonstrated to be in arrears. The tax tables are published before the FY starts and the government it not permitted to change the tax tables once the FY begins. So you have no excuse for not knowing how much you owe. Of course as part of our legal system you get the opportunity to demonstrate those figures are wrong. This means you get the presumption of innocence as you get to challenge the assessment. The fact is most people choose not to because the assessment is accurate. You have no idea what presumption of innocence means.
As Midnight Oil so wisely said
What does Peter Garrett do? You strike me as one of those Freemen On The Land nutters. For the Americans playing along at home FOTL's are the equivalent of Tea Partiers, Libertarians and Rednecks all rolled into one completely retarded package.
Hate to break it to you, but the US is way ahead of Australia in that regard.
If you ever get pulled over by a cop while carrying a large amount of cash on you, you'll find out the hard way.
Also we can record our cops.
For every traffic stop, my dash cam records audio. Plus because they use things like breathalisers, I cant be pulled out of my car because the officer "smelled beer on my breath", there is a standard of evidence to be upheld.
Not that I've ever had trouble with the cops. I get pulled over into an RBT (Random Breath Test) site about once a year and pull out a minute or two later with a "thanks for your co-operation sir". This is in my boy-racer Nissan Silvia S15 with fart canon exhaust, it really pays not to be a self-important wanker when dealing with cops.
We install Sandboxie on all computers that are in for service. The benefits of using it are explained to the customer. A rogue website only takes over the sandboxed session. If infected, close the box, delete the contents and you're up and running again.
That's completely useless in this case as the malware fools the user into installing it. The user downloads a zip file containing an executable, so its well outside the sandbox by that point.
Golly... where have I heard of that before...
They could call it
Cloud city
/grabs blaster rifle
Now get off my moisture farm, damn kids.
Your experience is very IT specific. If you were in construction or food service you would be using Spanish daily.
Your experience is very US-centric.
If you lived in Australia you'd find it hard to find anyone who spoke Spanish.
This is common amongst Asian languages or at least Asian cultures.
When communicating with contractors and businesses in many Asian nations it's often an exercise to figure out if "yes" means "yes we can" or "yes we cant"
It seems reasonable to always be 1 week behind in patching your systems - let someone else be the lightning rod for goofs and mistakes. I know some sysadmins patch "test" systems and try things out to see if the patches break their currently-running code. They don't seem to mind a certain time lag in patching.
I as well as millions of other sysadmins would very much like this feature in Windows.
That way we can immediately patch some machines and test for problems and then have the others patch 1-2 weeks later. 99% of the time it will be fine, but that 1% will save a weeks worth of downtime.
WSUS doesn't really cut it in this regard and requires too much manual work for a sysadmin that already doesn't have enough time.